Morning Gazette

The Morning Gazette is your daily newspaper — it is automatically generated after every tick and displayed in your dashboard. Beyond direct intelligence, it is your most important information source.

What’s in it?

The Gazette contains various categories of news:

Public Events

• Betrayal and DISHONORED status: When a player breaks a NAP or betrays an ally, it becomes public. Everyone finds out.
• Sector mutations: Changes to the urban landscape — new development zones, blocked areas, CorpSec reshufflings.
• Megacorp actions: What the big corporations are up to. New contracts, retaliation measures, economic shifts.

Cryptic Federal Heat Hints

Messages like:

“Federal authorities show increased interest in activities in the industrial sector…”

That might be you. Or a rival. Or nobody in particular. The Gazette doesn’t say directly — but if you know where you’ve been active, you can put two and two together.

Combat and Raid Reports

Who fought where? The Gazette reports on major conflicts, but partially anonymized based on Fog of War. You don’t always see who exactly was involved — sometimes only the sector and the result.

Leaderboard Updates

• Current wealth rankings (with the bluff component from Dirty Cash)
• Territorial status: who controls which sectors?

Personal Warnings

These messages are visible only to you. Other players can’t see them. Examples:

• “An informant warns of an imminent raid…”
• “Rumors of a planned attack on your territory…”
• Tips from your contacts and informants

Reading Strategically

The Gazette is intentionally cryptic. This is not a bug, it’s a feature. Some tips for reading it correctly:

Not everything affects you — but everything could. Read every message with your own activities in mind. Did you launder in the industrial sector yesterday? Then the hint about “federal interest in the industrial sector” probably concerns you.

Compare with your own Timeline. What does the Gazette say about a sector you’re watching? Does it match what you saw there? If not, someone else is active there.

Betrayal reports are always public. When a NAP is broken, all players find out. This makes betrayal a calculable risk — you gain in the short term, but your reputation suffers.

Federal Heat hints are veiled. A message like “Growing nervousness in financial circles” could mean someone is laundering aggressively. Whether that’s you or a rival, you have to figure out yourself.

Mayor edicts are always in the Gazette. They affect all players and can change the rules for certain sectors or activities.

The Gazette as a Weapon

You’re not just a reader — you can also actively manipulate the Gazette.

With the PLANT_STORY command you can inject false stories into the next issue. This requires a journalist contact on your PAYROLL.

What does disinformation achieve?

• Lead rivals astray: fake combat reports, invented raids, fabricated leaderboard trends
• Cause panic: reports of imminent CorpSec operations in a sector your rival controls
• Create distraction: draw attention to one side of the city while you strike on the other

Warning

Experienced players recognize patterns in disinformation. If the Gazette suddenly contains suspiciously specific information that benefits only one particular player, others become suspicious. Use PLANT_STORY sparingly and cleverly.